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Aloha: President Obama’s Hawaiian vacations have an $85 million price tag
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/15/obama-heads-to-hawaii-for-the-holidays/ ^ | December 15, 2016

Posted on 12/17/2016 2:21:25 PM PST by NYer

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1 posted on 12/17/2016 2:21:25 PM PST by NYer
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2 posted on 12/17/2016 2:22:48 PM PST by NYer (Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
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Given the damage that Muslim and his family have done to this country, I wonder whether we’d have been better off to keep their asses on permanent world holiday instead of in Washington effing up our lives these last 8 years.


3 posted on 12/17/2016 2:23:32 PM PST by Gaffer
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We should send them the bill!!!


4 posted on 12/17/2016 2:24:15 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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Send them a bill for personal travel. Go through all their logs and send bills to everyone who went with them that wasn’t immediate family.

I would start with sending bills to those who went on AF1 to take pictures of the Statue of Liberty right after his inauguration.


5 posted on 12/17/2016 2:26:00 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Too. Much. Winning.)
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And it still wasn’t enough for them.


6 posted on 12/17/2016 2:28:08 PM PST by Trillian
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pffff- chicken feed-:

Taxpayers Spent $1.4 Billion on Obama Family Last Year

“Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks.

In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family.”

http://nation.foxnews.com/obama-family/2012/09/27/taxpayers-spent-14-billion-obama-family-last-year

That is likely higher now- he and his family will have spent over $12 BILLION dollars on themselves when he leaves office


7 posted on 12/17/2016 2:30:12 PM PST by Bob434
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With the usual “scowly” faces of appreciation to the taxpayers, too.


8 posted on 12/17/2016 2:31:44 PM PST by Skybird
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Oh c’mon give us the “real” figure. They carried more than that in spending money to Morocco. Also need the figures on golf course fees and money spent on golf clubs.


9 posted on 12/17/2016 2:31:49 PM PST by jsanders2001
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...In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family...

After all, this is America’s ruling class living on the backs of the public.. America’s Royalty.


10 posted on 12/17/2016 2:33:28 PM PST by Sasparilla (I 'm Not Tired Of Winning)
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Love his cartoons.


11 posted on 12/17/2016 2:34:20 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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It is long past time the tax payers stop funding presidential vacations.

That practice needs to stop and stop now.

Congress should act and pass a bill prohibiting vacation expenditures.


12 posted on 12/17/2016 2:42:49 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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Well .. I don’t agree with you.

Just because President Obama TAKES ADVANTAGE OF THE PERKS OF PAID VACATIONS .. DOESN’T MEAN THEY ALL DO.

I really don’t expect Trump to do that .. he’ll probably go to his resort in Florida. The only perks will be some staff and the Secret Service protection detail. No hotel/rentals bills to pay; probably will cut the vacation expenses to about 1/4 what the Obamas spent.

I do believe the President needs down time, along with a chance to spend time with his family.


13 posted on 12/17/2016 2:54:26 PM PST by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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It’s the “in your face” nature of the extravagance - who in the real world takes a *17* day vacation at Muslim Christmas time? His summer trips have also been outrageously long. Which is fine maybe for college kids, not the leader of the free world.


14 posted on 12/17/2016 3:01:25 PM PST by GnuThere
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The best numbers to put this in perspective would be to compare this to other US POTUSes.

Anyone have any figures on that?


15 posted on 12/17/2016 3:02:11 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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We need to strip this out of the budget.


16 posted on 12/17/2016 3:03:45 PM PST by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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Nice scam if you can get away with it.


17 posted on 12/17/2016 3:08:51 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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Thankfully, this will be the last time we have to watch all the vacation activity in Hawaii; while we are freezing.


18 posted on 12/17/2016 3:22:26 PM PST by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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ping


19 posted on 12/17/2016 3:23:59 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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After January 20, the pressure must be kept up on President Trump and his AG Sessions to bring justice to Traitorobama for giving aid and comfort to the enemy through indictment, trial, conviction, sentencing, and public execution of sentence.


20 posted on 12/17/2016 3:24:46 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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